Thermal Stress Analysis of Composite Beams, Plates and Shells

Preface

Since the first article on thermoelasticity proposed by J.M.C. Duhamel [1], where the derivation of the governing equations for the coupling between the temperature field and the continuum elastic deformation was proposed for various boundary value problems, a significant amount of contributions have been given in this field, some remarkable books can be found in Refs. [2–8] amongst many others that have been proposed all along the book. Nowadays, thermoelasticity is an established topic with a consistent theoretical development. However, the authors deemed useful to write this book in order to elucidate and shed light on some more subtle aspects that rise when dealing with thermal stresses of laminated composite and functionally ...